Last night, I wrote “THE END” on the final page of Dangerous Games: How to Win, the third and final book in the trilogy. I just created a PDF of the first draft and sent it out to all the backers at the $100+ level. If you’re one of those kind souls, be sure to check your email for that. …
The Baker’s Dozen: Going for 13 in 13
As December rolls on, it’s clear I’m not going to be able to write a full dozen novels this year. There are a lot of reasons for that – including some cool things I can’t quite announce right now – but at the moment they mostly involve me wanting to be able to enjoy the upcoming holidays with my kids. …
12 for ’12 Update
On Friday, just in time for the end of NaNoWriMo, I finished off Dangerous Games Book 2, tentatively titled How to Cheat. I’ve shipped off first-draft PDFs to my high-end backers, and I’m starting in on Book 3 today. In November, for NaNoWriMo, I wrote over 102,000 words for Dangerous Games Book 1 and Book 2, plus the script for Magic: The Gathering: Path of …
The Next Big Thing Blog Tour
My friend Alex Bledsoe tapped me to be one of his minions join in the Next Big Thing blog tour. It’s kind of like a chain-mail letter – the things we used before emails and Facebook by people who don’t read Snopes.com – but instead of wasting postage it infects the blogs of authors around the net. Since it’s really …
Dangerous Games Book 1 Is Done!
I just wrote “The End” on the first book in the Dangerous Games trilogy, killing off my NaNoWriMo goal of 50,000 words in a total of 16 days. On this, the final day, I cracked 5,600 words for a grand total of 52,252 in the book. That’s not as fast as I was hoping for, but I’m still pushing to get …
NaNoWriMo and Me
Sometimes when I tell people about the 12 for ’12 challenge, they say, “Hey, that’s like doing a NaNoWriMo every month!” National Novel Writing Month is an annual challenge that writers can accept in which they try to write 50,000 words over the course of a month. It’s been happening every November since 1999, and last year over 250,000 people joined in the …
Cool Kickstarters
While I’m not running a Kickstarter of my own at the moment – and have no plans for one till at least the end of the year – I am involved in a few of them and am backing some others that deserve wider attention. If you want to keep up with what I’m looking at on Kickstarter, you can …
On the Once and Future Podcast
I had a great time chatting with fellow author and tabletop gamer Anton Strout on his Once and Future Podcast yesterday. The conversation ranged all over the place, mostly covering games, fiction, and other kids of geeky fun. You can listen to the entire thing at your leisure.
On the Radio on Friday
This Friday, October 5, at 1 PM Eastern, I’m slated to be a guest on the Kate Valentine UFO Show on WVNJ 1160 AM. You can also listen to the show live through Kate’s website. I’ll be on to chat about my Star Wars vs. Star Trek book and whatever else might come up. Join us!
Games on eBay
My son Marty is saving up for some cool things, so he’s ransacked my closets once again, looking for good gaming things that I don’t use anymore to sell. He has twenty things up there now. They’re mostly Dungeons & Dragons 3E stuff, including a pack of Eberron books, as well as the Forgotten Realms setting book and some system add-on books like the …